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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

i was wondering if someone can help. I am trying to install Red Hat update 4 i386 with intel core 2 duo and Intel DG965RY motherboard with 4GB of Kingston RAM. When i start the installation the installtion stops at Probing PCI hardware bus 00.

Has anyone successfully installed RH on this environment? Is there something i am missing. I have tried Linux noprobe option but that is probing the hardware.

Your problem is two fold.
First, you need to add "pci=nommconf" to the kernel boot parameters;
Second, This particular board isn't currently supported by Redhat 4 update 4.

There is a patch for the ata_piix driver that Intel released, but RedHat didn't take it before they released 4u4. I'd recommend either waiting for 4u5, or Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 works quite well with that system. Or, you could install RedHat onto a hard drive from a different system, then patch the ata_piix driver in the kernel, and move the drive back.

To get past the "Probing PCI hardware bus 00" hang, you need to boot with "pci=nommconf" on the kernel cmdline on the 965 systems. Also, the DQ series boards will install if you change the sata mode to legacy.

i was wondering if someone can help. I am trying to install Fedora Core 4 i386 with intel core 2 duo 1.86 GHz and Intel DG965RY motherboard with 1GB of Kingston RAM. When i start the installation the installation stops at Probing PCI hardware bus 00.

Has anyone successfully installed Fedora on this environment? Anyone can help me

hmm, it took me a while to figure it out, but a while back they added support for memory mapping to the PCI Bus. That could cause problems with some cards or bridges I suppose, so pci=nommconf probably means no-memory-mapping-configuration on the pci bus. Don't take my word for it but it makes sense.

i was wondering if someone can help. I am trying to install Fedora Core 4 i386 with intel core 2 duo 1.86 GHz and Intel DG965RY motherboard with 1GB of Kingston RAM. When i start the installation the installation stops at Probing PCI hardware bus 00.

Has anyone successfully installed Fedora on this environment? Anyone can help me

Did you try the pci=nommconf ? It didn't work for my card (RedHat 9/Krnl 2.4 does not recognize it), but if the PCI bridge on your DG965RY doesn't support linux pci memory mapping that option will allow it to finish probing the bus.

when you install the system and it asks you for parameters to boot with type "pci=nommconf" and what ever other parameters are needed.

I was wondering if someone can help. I am trying to install Fedora Core 4 i386 with intel core 2 duo 1.86 GHz and Intel DG965RY motherboard with 1GB of Kingston RAM. When i start the installation the installation stops at Probing PCI hardware bus 00.

Also, go to support.intel.com and make sure you have the latest bios. I'm currently installing Mandriva 2007 on a DP965LT (functionally equivilant to your system w/o graphics). My SATA is set to AHCI and working fine (except for the Plextor SATA DVD-RW).

i was wondering if someone can help. I am trying to install Red Hat update 4 i386 with intel core 2 duo and Intel DG965RY motherboard with 4GB of Kingston RAM. When i start the installation the installtion stops at Probing PCI hardware bus 00.

Has anyone successfully installed RH on this environment? Is there something i am missing. I have tried Linux noprobe option but that is probing the hardware.

well some time has passed and RHEL 4 update 5 has been released but still it doesn't work, and I`ve also tried RHEL 5 and it still doesn't work..both ask for that ata_piix driver.
could anyone please tell me how to fix this..or where to get the driver. i'm in desperate need.

During installation, put "linux pci=nommconf" at the linux boot prompt.

After successfull installation, server reboots. You will get the grub menu. Select the kernel you want to edit, and press "e" to edit. Move the cursor down to the "kernel" line and press "e" to edit that line. For me, my line reads:

Hi,
i am having the same problem, i could boot my system using option of "linux pci=nommconf" but problem comes when when it skes for selecting drivers for devices. Its not deceting my SATA hard drive on my core du2 system. How to resolve this issue? I insetred the CD came with my machine from INTEL but it doesn't pic any driver from there